MAJMA’ AL-ANSAB SILSILA NAMA: AN OTTOMAN GENEALOGY MANUSCRIPT
Ottoman Turkey, second half 18th century

Arabic and Turkish manuscript on paper, 58ff., each folio with an average of 20ll. to the page, in a variety of hands, in black and red ink naskh, the diagrams with orange, green, blue, and grey circles, the genealogy tracing Sultan Mahmud I (r. 1730 - 1754) to Adam via the Prophet in a horizontal format, incorporating many prophets, caliphs, and celebrated religious and political figures through history, in brown morocco binding with flap, the folio 25cm x 17cm.